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By Robert Lea Published
"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly."

By Mike Wall Last updated
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two cosmonauts launched toward the International Space Station atop a Russian rocket at 10:47 a.m. EDT on Tuesday (July 14), and docked just three hours later.

By Samantha Mathewson Published
Scientists have directly measured the magnetic field surrounding the speedy neutron star for the first time.

By Elizabeth Howell Published
The Artemis II astronauts made an impact on potentially hundreds of millions of people during their mission, according to NASA figures.

By Elizabeth Howell Published
A simulation of future astronaut moon bases suggests that mission design, and not just psychology, needs to be considered for success.

By Brett Tingley Published
NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.

By Robert Lea Published
To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy Centaurus A, the site of a cosmic collision 2 billion years ago.

By Mike Wall Published
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.

By Robert Lea Published
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to Einstein.

By Mike Wall Published
Humanity made some halting steps toward flight over the centuries, but our species was still firmly rooted on the ground when the United States of America was born on July 4, 1776.
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